"Myanmar is a part of the ASEAN family, " Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon told Asiaweek.

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"When elephants quarrel, it's the grass underneath that gets trampled and the mice that have to run away, " quips Siazon.

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Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan, Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon and top Singapore foreign ministry bureaucrat Kishore Mahbubani took up the cause.

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